MediaTek announced its Kompanio Ultra processor for Chromebook Plus devices, and it looks a lot like a Copilot+ PC processor. Which is interesting, given the rumors.
“The Kompanio Ultra underscores our commitment to delivering groundbreaking computing performance and efficiency that MediaTek has shown as a leader in the mobile compute space for many years,” MediaTek vice president Adam King says. “We worked closely with Google to ensure the newest Chromebook Plus devices enjoy next-generation on-device AI capabilities, superior performance per watt, and immersive multimedia.”
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The Kompanio Ultra is built on a 3-nm process, and it provides an all-big-core CPU architecture with one 3.62 GHz Arm Cortex-X925 processor plus three Cortex-X4 cores and four Cortex-A720 cores. There’s also an 8th-generation NPU with 50 TOPS of hardware-accelerated AI performance, and the chip supports Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6, and it can connect to two external 4K displays.
Chromebook Plus devices powered by the Kompanio Ultra will be available in the coming months. MediaTek says, and it is of course promising all-day battery and the best performance yet in any Chromebook. But it’s difficult to look at this and not see the basis for a pretty competitive Copilot+ PC. For example, where a Snapdragon X Elite typical scores about 2800/14,000 on Geekbench 6 (single/multi-core), the Kompanio Ultra hits 2600/8000. All it really needs is, I don’t know, an Nvidia GPU.
